Browse Submitted Surnames

This is a list of submitted surnames in which the meaning contains the keyword rope.
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Cabell Catalan, English, German
As a Catalan name, a nickname for "bald" from the Spanish word cabello. The English name, found primarily in Norfolk and Devon, is occupational for a "maker or seller of nautical rope" that comes from a Norman French word... [more]
Corday French
Either from the French word corde meaning "cord/rope/string", or from the Latin word cor meaning "heart." This was the surname of Charlotte Corday, the assassin who killed Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat during the French revolution.
Cordell English
Means "maker of cord" or "seller of cord" in Middle English.
Cordina Maltese
Derived from Italian corda meaning "rope".
Juhe Estonian
Juhe is an Estonian surname meaning "cord" and "wire".
Koort Estonian
Koort is an Estonian surname meaning "cord".
Nöör Estonian
Nöör is an Estonian surname meaning "twine" or "cord".
Paesüld Estonian
Paesüld is an Estonian surname meaning "ribbon/tab cord".
Strynckx Flemish
Variant form of Dutch Streng "strong, rope, cord", a metonymic occupational name for a rope maker. Alternatively, it could be a nickname derived from streng "strict, severe, cruel".
Tsunashima Japanese
From Japanese 綱 (tsuna) meaning "rope, cable, cord" and 島 (shima) meaning "island".
Veryovkin m Russian
From Russian верёвка (veryovka), meaning "rope".